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SRI -
LANKA: PATA ECOTOURISM CONFERENCE TO "PUT SRI LANKA ON THE
MAP" by ECOCLUB
Correspondent, Frederick De Silva Gurusinghe, President Sri Lanka
Ecotourism Foundation.
Sri Lankas' enormous potential as a
rising Ecotourism destination in Asia and Pacific Region will be in focus
at the 13th Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Adventure Travel and
Ecotourism Conference and Mart (ATECM) held from January 30th to February
3rd 2001. in Sri Lanka. The Conference one of the main tourism marketing
vehicle for PATAs 44 member countries, provides an ideal opportunity,
particularly, for small countries to present their ecotourism potential.
This conference is very special to Sri Lanka as it will provide tremendous
exposure to the Island as a destination for adventure, nature and
ecotourism travel. According to the Conference sources there will be 45
"buyers" from UK, USA, Australia, Thailand, Netherlands, Italy, France,
New Zealand and other countries in Asia Pacific Region have registered for
event. The newly appointed Chairman of the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Tourist
Board, Mr. Renton de Alwis, an active former Vice-President of PATA Asia,
said that drawing up a comprehensive ecotourism development strategy will
be given priority by the Board in its action Plan this year. De Alwis
stated that 'Ecotourism was a specialized area and that Sri Lanka had a
great opportunity to showcase its product as a new and exotic ecotourism
destination. However, he warned against the use and abuse of the
'ecotourism label' without due consideration to its concepts and
ideals'. Sri Lanka seems to be fast embracing ecotourism as an
alternative to conventional mass tourism which is on the steady decline in
Sri Lanka, mainly due to unhealthy competition among the sun, sea, and
sand based mass tour operators themselves. At present, many such tour
operators in Sri Lanka in collaboration with big time star class hotels
are desperately offering 'ecotour packages' to attract unsuspecting
up-market ecotourists. In fact what they are offering is traditional
nature based tours and nothing to do with genuine ecotourism, which
reminds the saying 'old wines in new bottle'
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: NEW PROTECTED HABITAT FOR
MIGRATORY BIRDS - by ECOCLUB Correspondent, Bouc Jones, Principal,
Ecos College.
Migratory birds have now secured more protected
habitat in the Lower Murray River Lakes and dune wetlands at the mouth of
the Murray River, South Australia. The Coorong National Park at the mouth
of the Murray has been expanded to include all of the tidal estuarine
waters to the high tide mark and a detailed wetland management plan has
been proclaimed to manage the remainder of the freshwater lakes that were
created by the construction of a system of barrages during the 1940's.
Since the construction of the barrages and the artificial regulation of
the natural river flow this region has suffered considerable environmental
degradation. It is expected that the new management plan will at least
arrest the process of degradation with the possibility of improvement to
this migratory bird habitat, which is included in the Ramsar Convention as
a habitat of international importance. Regionally the Coorong and Lower
Murray Ramsar Wetlands have been altered by river regulation, agriculture,
introduced exotic plants and animals, river trade and recreation. It still
contains, however, important waterbird habitats and is a significant
drought refuge in a State that is recognised as one of the driest areas in
the world. This area includes a variety of habitat types which can vary
seasonally. Being within 80km of Adelaide, the major centre of population,
it is also used extensively as a wetland and dune recreation area. The
indigenous people, the Ngarrindjeri, naturally view the region as having
significant importance to them and worry too about the main environmental
and ecological threats which are:- habitat decline due to habitat
simplification, conflicts of land use leading to excessive disturbance and
loss of habitat, isolation from other wetlands because of changes to land
use, the presence of exotic plants and animals, fragmented
management by many agencies, the limited ability to influence
occurrences upstream in the Murray Darling Basin which impact on the
Coorong and Lower Murray Lakes, such as water diversions. The new
management plan is at least a beginning. Top
INDIA'S
7.9 EARTHQUAKE As many as 60,000 people or even more
may have died and many thousands more are critically injured and missing
as a result of an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale that shook
western India on India's 52nd Republic Day. The epicenter was near Bhuj, a
desert town of 150,000 people in western Gujarat state, close to the
border between India and Pakistan. The earthqake was the biggest since
1819. U
UP TO 1,000 KILLED IN CENTRAL AMERICA QUAKE and thousands
injured in El Salvador after a strong earthquake strucks the Central
American nation, setting off landslides and burying hundreds of homes.
Environmental activists and local authorities in a town where a
mountainside buried an entire neighborhood say deforestation and greed
contributed to the disaster. Long before the hill came crashing down on
top of the Las Colinas neighborhood outside San Salvador,
environmentalists had asked Congress, and municipal officials had asked
the Supreme Court, to block the construction of mansions on the hillside,
saying the trees there helped prevent landslides.
WARNED ON DEPLETED URANIUM, 10 YEARS AGO ?? -
15-Jan-01 The Times According to The Times newspaper,
the UK Atomic Energy Authority made clear in a 1991 confidential paper
that "shells left in Kuwait were a potential source of radioactive
contamination". - The report was in THE TIMES, not in
the "Daily Saddam" or in the "Slobodan Mirror".
GALAPAGOS DUMPED - 24 Jan
01 - AP, RT Stricken tanker, Jessica, spills some
200,000 gallons of diesel into the waters off the Galapagos Islands. The
Ecuadorian tanker captain whose Ecuadorian-registered ship ran aground on
the Galapagos islands tearfully took the blame. Tarquino Arevalo, said
he had misjudged his entry into the suitably named "Shipwreck Bay". The
visible damage to the fragile marine environment of the Galapagos Islands
was the death of at least nine animals, authorities
said.
FIRST CHINESE TIGER RESERVE - 2 Jan 01 -
ENS A nature reserve that is inhabited by up to
six Siberian tigers is upgraded to a national park.
COUGAR KILLS SKIER - 4 Jan 01 -
AP in Canadian BANFF National Park, Alberta. A cougar
stalked and killed a cross-country skier in Banff National Park, the
park's warden said Wednesday.
ELEPHANT
TRAMPLES TOURIST - 11 Jan 01 - AP An American woman
was trampled to death by an elephant in a Tanzanian national park after it
" became enraged by the clicking sounds of her camera", officials
said.
BOATERS
PROMISE TO BRAKE FOR MANATEES 29 Jan 01 -
ENS Landmark legal settlement reached in principle
between conservationists and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission: to slow down boats in manatee habitat, reducing the risk of
collisions with the endangered mammals.
SHELL SHELLED 29 Jan 01 -
ENS Environmentalists have taken oil giant Shell to court
over its plans to build a pipeline for mineral and gas exploration in
Pakistan's Kirthar National Park.
PESTICIDES
& PARKINSON'S - 3 Jan 01 - ENS A combination of
two widely used agricultural pesticides creates in mice the exact pattern
of brain damage that appears in humans with Parkinson's
disease. - Let's keep it organic folks
!
NO-WATERWORLD - Johns
Hopkins By 2025, with world
population projected to be at 8 billion, 48 countries containing 3 billion
people will face chronic water shortages. In 25 years, humankind could be
using over 90% of all available freshwater, leaving just 10% for the rest
of the world's plants and animals. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Report http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/m15edsum.stm -
What an irony, water level will go up while potable water will
disappear.
UK BANS HUNTING WITH DOGS 18 Jan 01
ENS UK members of parliament vote overwhelmingly to ban
hunting with dogs. Lots of barking though, outside the
parliament.
TAIWAN BANS EATING
DOGS - 3
Jan 01 AP Under a new Taiwanese law, a fine of up to
$300 will be payable for butchering or selling dog meat, called "fragrant
meat" in Taiwanese slang.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
ILLEGAL RAINFOREST WOOD IMPORTS - 4 Jan 01 - EIA The
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is stepping up its campaign to
eliminate US wood imports illegally sourced from the Indonesian
rainforests which provide the last refuge of the orangutan. Fewer than
25,000 of which remain on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra where illegal
logging is rife. Large volumes of Indonesian ramin, a rare tree species,
are imported annually into the US and sold to the public by home
improvement stores.
95% OF AMAZON FOREST
GONE BY 2020 - Science Researchers in the
United States used computer models to forecast the impact of a development
scheme called "Advance Brazil". Science Journal Researchers' estimate that
barely five percent of the Amazon will survive as pristine forest by 2020.
The rest will be destroyed by logging, infrastructure, oil exploration and
new towns.
UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH - worldwatch.org 480
million of the world's 6 billion people are being fed with grain produced
with the unsustainable use of water
FISHING
BANNED INSIDE INDIAN NATIONALPARK - 11 Jan 01 Fishing
inside the Kaziranga National Park, a world famous habitat for one horn
rhino in Assam of India, has been banned.
NEW ROLES
NEW WORLD BANK REPORT - 11Jan 01: "New Roles for
Communities, Markets and Governments, a major policy report on the New
Ideas in Pollution Regulation" Download at http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/greening/index.htm
ENDOSULFAN ENDOSULFAN? NO THANK YOU, NO THANK
YOU An Environmental activist has obtained a temporary
injunction barring the government of Kerala State, India, from spraying a
highly toxic pesticide, Endosulfan Endosulfan, commonly used to fight
insects. Allegedly (my lawyer kindly asked me to put the word allegedly),
it is highly toxic to birds, fish, and beneficial insects. Scientists have
also concluded, also allegedly (OK?) that the hazard it presents to
frogs and toads "is sufficiently great to warrant its replacement by less
toxic alternatives wherever possible."
HECKTARES 11 Jan 01 - ENS The
Brazilian Agrarian Reform Ministry reportedly (nice word too) suspects
more than 100 million hectares of land - an area bigger than Central
America - is illegally held through phony land
titles.
ZIMBABWE : LEGALIZE IVORY - 17
Jan 01 The Zimbabwean government renews its demand for legal
ivory sales following what authorities say is the swelling of its elephant
population.
NORWAY: LEGALIZE THE WHALE TRADE
- 18 Jan 01 Norway says its decision to allow the export of
minke whale products is based on the principle of the "sustainable use of
natural resources" - I will use you sustainably for your own
good.
UK: LEGALIZE HUMAN CLONING -
23 Jan 01 ENS The United Kingdom becomes the first
country to legalize the creation of cloned human embryos, after the
House of Lords voted last night to relax government regulations.
The UNELECTED upper house voted their approval by a majority of
120. - The PEOPLE decides.... Would any of their Lordships have
shares in biomedical companies - no, of course not.
CLINTON: NO DRILLING IN ALASKA 18-01-01
UPI Former US President Bill Clinton calls on Congress
to ensure environmental protections for Alaskan wild lands, which the
incoming administration has vowed to open for oil drilling. "We must
continue, I believe, to safeguard the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
(ANWR), a Serengeti of the Americas".
BUSH
BLOCKS CLINTON'S 11th HOUR ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES - 22 Jan 01 -
ENS Incoming President George W. Bush on Saturday moved
quickly to block the implementation of a host of environmental protection
initiatives that had been put in place during the waning weeks of the
former Clinton/Gore administration. - It took Clinton 8 years to
remember these initiatives, but only 1 day for Bush.
Strange.
TR-OOPS FIRE - 23 Jan 01 - ENS A remote
haven for South Atlantic seabirds has been all but destroyed in a fire
started by British troops attempting to remove
ordnance.
NEPAL BANS IMPORT OF
"POLLUTING" VEHICLES - 24 Jan 01 - ENS The Nepal
Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to immediately stop the
import of Indian vehicles not meeting Euro-I vehicular
emission standards. The smoke belching vehicles were allegedly "a primary
cause of pollution in the Kathmandu Valley which contains eight sites
listed in UNESCO's World Heritage List". - Yes, but I was
under the impression that all vehicles, not just Indian are polluting.
Could there be something else?
ARCTIC NUKE ROUTE DENOUNCED - 24 Jan 01 -
Greenpeace A plan to ship highly radioactive nuclear waste
from Europe to Japan via the Arctic has been described as "desperate
madness" by Greenpeace.
DEAD FISH - 25
Jan 01 - Greenpeace / ENS Activists launch a protest in
Turkish Gulf of Izmit, just south of Istanbul while scientists argued over
just why the Gulf has been filling up with dead fish.
NEW PRIMATES DISCOVERED - BUT THEY ARE ENDANGERED
! - 26 Jan 01 - ENS Nine new lemur and two marmoset
species have been discovered in the forests of Madagascar and
Brazil.
BUSH VS BUSH - 26 Jan 01
- AP Jeb Bush has sent a letter off to Washington,
telling the new administration headed by his brother to forget about
opening up Florida's Gulf Coast to more offshore drilling.
CALIFORNIA MANDATES ZERO EMISSION CARS SACRAMENTO,
California, January 30, 2001 (ENS) - Despite pressure from the
auto industry, California air quality officials voted last week to require
automakers to sell electric cars and other zero emissions vehicles in the
state by 2003. The decision triggers similar legislation in Massachusetts,
New York and Vermont.
GORILLAS SURVIVE
GUERILLAS - 30 Jan 01 - IGCP Rare mountain
gorilla population has increased 10% despite 10 years of armed conflict in
the Great Lakes region of Central Africa. The Virunga population of highly
endangered mountain gorillas has been protected effectively and the
numbers have increased by more than 10%. This population of mountain
gorillas increased from 320 to 355 individuals, based on monitoring data
from the International Gorilla Conservation Programme and the Dian Fossey
Gorilla Fund.
REPORTERS SANS FREEDOM Press freedom report in 2000 by Reporters Sans Frontiers: 26
journalists killed, 329 journalists arrested, 510 journalists threatened
or harassed, 295 media censored, 77 journalists imprisoned More at
http://www.rsf.fr
HORRIBLE ECOTOURISM QUOTATION OF THE MONTH -
Source not revealed for legal purposes. Watamu, Kenya 26 Jan
01 "Take a dollop of local
tribes-people, a cup of endangered wildlife, a sprinkling of stunning
landscape and a pinch of tourists... the perfect recipe for an
eco-friendly safari." Top
NEW
QUALITY LODGE ADDED ECOCLUB
SA is proud to announce that it has signed an agreement with Cabanas
Pijiba, as you read above the winner of the Conservation International 2000
Ecotourism Excellence Award. Visit Cabanas Pijiba at http://ecoclub.com/pijiba
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NEW EXPERT MEMBERSHIP keeps
growing Three new Experts have signed up at ECOCLUB.com and offer
discounts to Members. Check them out at http://ecoclub.com/experts.html and
http://ecotourism.cc/experts.html
PRICES
SLASHED AT THE ECOCLUB SHOP - CHARITY DONATION PROGRAM
INITIATED Following the entry of our local currency, the Greek
Drachma - arguably at 2,600 years the worlds most ancient currency in
the EURO zone, prices are now stated in Euros (EUR). In parallel we
decided to leave the prices unchanged in numerical terms, therefore
customers are now enjoying a 7% cut. We also decided to replace the
Members discount and to replace it with a donation of 5% for every
purchase to a charity / cause of your choice. When you buy an ecoproduct
you will then tell us to which charity you wish the donation made, or to
select from a list of existing charities. As soon as the funds reach
EUR 50 we will then send a check to your selected charity and a letter
with all the names of the people that contributed. You will also be able
to check the Charities balances on-line. So make an ECO-GIFT to
someone and it is a DOUBLE ECO-GIFT. Top
A new column for readers to have a go at
defining ecotourism ! Here is my 2 attempts:
"Ecotourism is
nature based travel which benefits the local environment, economy and
society.© ECOCLUB S.A.
And on a lighter note:
"Defining
ecotourism is as elusive, as the animals on some ecotours" - © ECOCLUB
S.A.
"Ecotourism for me, is an impetus of learning every human
aspect in order to be aware of the different events, effects, problems and
diversities that let us remember how we nurture our community and
resources for the inner being for ourselves and for the welfare of the
next generation that every one of us, is a pillar" - Angelito
Teves, Philippines
"Ecotourism for me, is a new dimension of the
global tourism industry in which selected sites and locations and some
times entire geographical zones are preserved for people to visit and
appreciate them in their pristine natural beauty. Ecotourism is nature
based tourism that involves interpretation and education of the natural
environment and is managed ecologically and sustainably offering tangible
returns to the local community." - Palitha Gurusinghe, Sri
Lanka
"Ecotourism for me, is a form of education
about our ecological and cultural issues; when people least expect it and
therefore are the most receptive, when they are relaxed and happy." -
Sally Scott, Australia. Top
| Would you be in favour of a 0.01% Tax on all
Stock Exchange transactions worldwide in order to combat poverty and
support conservation? |
|
Total Votes
37 |
| YES |
92% |
| NO |
8% |
A clear result. My calculations
show that a 0.01% Tax on the New York Stock Exchange would have
grossed $ 4,386,700 on 1 average trading day of 2000 or about $
1.1 billion in a year. A 0.1% Tax would gross $11 billion per
annum. And this is just for the NYSE Food for thought
then.
Check the February Poll at http://ecotourism.cc Top
Trade Shows / Conferences
2001
If you are organising or are
aware of an ecotourism related Trade Show or Conference please send the
details to news@ecoclub.com to
promote it for free.
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Feb 7-9,
2001, Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, Location New
Delhi, India Feb 14 - Mar 7,
200, Permaculture Course, Location Costa -
Rica Feb 15-18, 200, BIO
FACH- World Organic Trade Fair, Location Nuremberg, Germany Feb 17-18, 2001, IATOS 2001 EXPO, Location
Chicago, IL, USA Feb 23 -25,
2001, Independent Traveler's World, Location Islington,
London, UK Feb 28 - Mar 2,
2001, WASTE 2001, the "Middle East Congress and Exhibition
for Recycling and Waste Management", Location Cairo, Egypt Feb 28-Mar 3, 2001, Nonprofits in Travel
Conference, Location Washington DC, USA Mar
3-4, 2001, Independent Traveler's World, Location Leeds,
UK March 5-6,
2001, WTO Seminar on Planning, Development and Management
of Ecotourism in Africa, Location: Maputo, Mozambique, Mar 26-28, 2001, Wilderness Britain,
Location Leeds, UK Details Mar 30 - Apr 1,
2001, Coastal Plain Waters 2001, Location Washington, N.
Carolina, USA Apr 1-8,
2001, Mountain Travel Symposium, Location Park City, UT,
USA Apr 5-6, 2001, International
Sustainable Development Research Conference 2001, Location Manchester,
UK May 28-30, 2001, Indigenous
Knowledge Conference, Location Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada Jun 3-7, 2001, Wind
Power 2001, Location Washington DC, USA June
6-8, 2001, ECOSUD 2001, Third International Conference on
Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, Location Alicante,
Spain Jun 4-6,
2001, Eco-Entrepreneur Conference, Location
Oman Jun 21-22, 2001, 7th Annual
Eco-Management and Auditing Conference, Location The
Netherlands Jul 2-4,
2001 , 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference on
the Environment, Location San Francisco, CA, USA Details Sep 5-8, 2001, Conservation of Biodiversity
in the Andes and Amazon Basin, linking science, NGOs and Indigenous
People, Location Cusco, Peru Oct 3-5,
2001, eTravel World Conference, Location Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA Dec 5-8,
2001, EcoDesign 2001, Location Tokyo, Japan Top
W@tch
@Yahoo finally
decides to ban Nazi and Ku Klux Klan merchandise from being auctioned on
its sites.
@Germany's state-run Independent Center for Privacy
Protection is spearheading a drive to educate Net users worldwide about
how to recognize and avoid violations of their privacy.
@William
Hewlett, 87, Dies The co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, William Hewlett, dies
in his sleep in his Palo Alto home.
@The U.S. Copyright Office is
considering ways for content to be destroyed on hard drives after a
secondary sale.
@Nintendo Didn't Like a Pokemon meta tag a couple
of guys put up a in a nondescript site
@The personal information of
about 45,000 Travelocity customers was available on the company website
for all to see. No blaming hackers but pure and simple human
error.
@ US States Consider Unifying Web Purchase
Tax
@Amazon to close a distribution center and a customer
service center, affecting 850 employees. It also dismisses criticism
that the were made in an area of the company that was trying to
unionize.
@87% of E-Crimes Linked to Auction Sites according
to a new eMarketer report. Its latest e-privacy and security survey found
87 percent of the online fraud committed in 2000 was attributed to
e-auction sites.
@VW Creates Online Buzz for New Beetle. The car
company made two colors available for purchase only online, and provided
rich-media elements to boost sales.
@GEORGE ORWELL EVENT OF THE
MONTH: "Super Bowl 2001 fans were secretly treated to a mass,
biometric scan in which video cameras tied to a temporary law-enforcement
command centre digitised their faces and compared them against
photographic lists of known malefactors. Everyone entering Raymond James
Stadium in Tampa, Florida last Sunday was subjected to the surveillance
system cameras, set up at the entrance turnstiles" Details: www.theregister.co.uk Top
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*** Employment Opportunity with
The International Ecotourism Society Title: Operations Manager Location:
The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), Burlington, Vermont Terms:
Full time Salary: 28K plus benefits Application Deadline: Apply
Immediately Start Date: March 1, 2001 *** Employment Opportunity with
The International Ecotourism Society Title: Director, International Year
of Ecotourism (IYE) Location: The International Ecotourism Society,
Burlington, Vermont Terms: Full-time Salary: $30,000 annual plus benefits
Application Deadline: March 1, 2001 Start Date: April 1, 2001 ***
Employment Opportunity with The International Ecotourism Society Title:
Research and Communications Intern Location: The International Ecotourism
Society (TIES), Burlington, Vermont Terms: Full-time, six months Salary:
$250 monthly stipend & housing arrangements Application Deadline:
March 1, 2001 Start Date: April 1, 2001
*** Regional Director,
Panos South Asia Panos South Asia is a regional information and
communications not-for-profit organisation based in Kathmandu, Nepal, with
a country office in New Delhi, India. Panos South Asia works with the
media, policy-makers and international agencies throughout South Asia to
provide information and stimulate debate on developing issues.
Applications for the post of Regional Director are invited from nationals
of South Asia.
*** CANADA WOLF REPRESENTATIVE SOUGHT BY Defenders
of Wildlife *** DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, BRAZIL DIVISION The Nature
Conservancy *** PROJECTS MANAGER BirdLife International, based at the
Secretariat *** APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONFERENCE REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE,
BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA *** WARDEN / NATURALIST WANTED BEDFORD, NY ***
TOUR GUIDE / INTERPRETIVE NATURALIST SOUGHT, ST PAUL ISLAND, AK ***
CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND IS SEEKING A COORDINATOR FOR ITS CASES
AND LEAP PROGRAM *** EARTHROOTS, TORONTO WANTS A WILDERNESS
CAMPAIGNER *** THE CANADIAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION WANTS A
PROJECT COORDINATOR *** CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
WANTS MARKETING MANAGER *** FORD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS *** UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SEEKS CHAIR IN
ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS The University of Oregon ***
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE WANTS TO HIRE A SOCIAL SCIENTIST IN WASHINGTON,
D.C. *** CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN ARIZONA WANTS THREE
POSITIONS *** MONTANA ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION CENTER
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR *** WOMEN'S VOICES FOR THE EARTH WANTS AN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MONTANA *** CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
CITIZENSHIP IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WANTS AN ORGANIZER ***
ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES, MONTANA, WANTS AN OUTREACH
COORDINATOR *** TWO SENIOR BIOLOGISTS NEEDED BY ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSULTING FIRM IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA *** 35 U.S. YOUTH
INVITED TO JOIN THE GREEN CORPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING ***
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC WANTS A PROFESSOR OF FOREST RESOURCES ***
CERES WANTS TO FILL THREE ENVIRONMENTAL POSITIONS *** IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON
WANTS TWO CLIMATE CHANGE MODELLERS *** ENVIRONMENT MANAGER NEEDED
IN EGYPT *** THE NATURE CONSERVANCY SEEKS NORTHEAST OREGON
STEWARDSHIP DIRECTOR Top
Eco -
Quiz
The JANUARY ECO-QUIZ was:
TWO ISLANDS, SAME NAME,
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, 11,000 KM APART. NAME THE ISLANDS !
THE MOST
CORRECT ANSWER WAS: Admiralty Island, Nunavut (Canada) and Admiralty
Island(s), Papua New Guinea = They are 11,080 km apart. Because of
the little "s" we decided to also accept the following
replies:
Andros, Bahamas and Andros,
Greece = 9,462 km apart and Channel Islands (UK) and Channel
Islands (USA) = 8,948 km apart.
Our Winners: Elena
Papas, USA, C. Alexopoulos, Greece [4th time, no the competition
is not rigged !] , P. P., Romania [2nd time], Jerry
A-Kum, Jamaica
Because we were so kind in January , a slightly more
difficult question in February !
THE FEBRUARY
ECO-QUIZ:
Name a characteristic life
cycle difference between an Atlantic and Pacific variety of a well known
species !
PRIZE: A SURPRISE PRODUCT
FROM THE ECOCLUB SHOP -featuring selected
eco-gifts.
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